Installing Mac OS

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BaruchZed
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Installing Mac OS

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I have Virtualbox installed on my MBP 14"and want to install OS X Yosemite on it to run some legacy software, but I am completely lost. If someone were willing to walk me through it on the phone or in text, I'd be grateful and would even make it worth your while.
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Re: Installing Mac OS

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Please see viewtopic.php?f=22&t=81443 and viewtopic.php?f=22&t=85631 for some possible suggestions.
BaruchZed
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Re: Installing Mac OS

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Thank you, I will look this over thoroughly.

I recently was told that it is impossible to run an Intel app on an M1 Max chip even in a VM. I have an M1 Max 14" MBP, so I suspect none of this may work. Do you know anything about that?

Thanks again!
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Re: Installing Mac OS

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BaruchZed wrote: I recently was told that it is impossible to run an Intel app on an M1 Max chip even in a VM.
That is correct. There is no "even" regarding a VM. The things that makes a VM different from a simulator are (a) guest code runs directly on the host CPU, and because of this (b) guest code runs a zillion times faster than it will in a simulator.

Obviously (a) can't happen if it's the wrong CPU.
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